Frank Teo provided an updated, mostly docs changed
diff --git a/docs/examples/synctime.c b/docs/examples/synctime.c
index fc629ee..cd8d080 100644
--- a/docs/examples/synctime.c
+++ b/docs/examples/synctime.c
@@ -9,6 +9,18 @@
*
* This example code only builds as-is on Windows.
*
+ * While Unix/Linux user, you do not need this software.
+ * You can achieve the same result as synctime using curl, awk and date.
+ * Set proxy as according to your network, but beware of proxy Cache-Control.
+ *
+ * To set your system clock, root access is required.
+ * # date -s "`curl -sI http://nist.time.gov/timezone.cgi?UTC/s/0 \
+ * | awk -F': ' '/Date: / {print $2}'`"
+ *
+ * To view remote webserver date and time.
+ * $ curl -sI http://nist.time.gov/timezone.cgi?UTC/s/0 \
+ * | awk -F': ' '/Date: / {print $2}'
+ *
* Synchronising your computer clock via Internet time server usually relies
* on DAYTIME, TIME, or NTP protocols. These protocols provide good accurate
* time synchronisation but it does not work very well through a
@@ -300,10 +312,11 @@
MthStr[LOCALTime.wMonth-1], LOCALTime.wYear,
LOCALTime.wHour, LOCALTime.wMinute, LOCALTime.wSecond,
LOCALTime.wMilliseconds);
- fprintf(stderr, "\nBefore HTTP. Date: %s%s\n\n", timeBuf, tzoneBuf);
+
+ fprintf(stderr, "Fetch: %s\n\n", conf->timeserver);
+ fprintf(stderr, "Before HTTP. Date: %s%s\n\n", timeBuf, tzoneBuf);
/* HTTP HEAD command to the Webserver */
- fprintf(stderr, "Fetch: %s\n", conf->timeserver);
SyncTime_CURL_Fetch(curl, conf->timeserver, "index.htm",
HTTP_COMMAND_HEAD);
